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Through the eyes of a killer

Rachel de Luca has found incredible success writing self-help books. But her own blindness and the fact that her troubled brother has gone missing have convinced her that positive thinking is nothing but bull.

Her cynicism wavers when a cornea transplant restores her sight. The new eyes seem to give her new life, until they prove too good to be true and she starts seeing terrifying visions of brutal murderscrimes she soon learns are all too real.

Detective Mason Brown's own brother recently died, leaving behind a horrific secret. In atonement, Mason donated his brother's organs, though he's kept the fact quiet. Now he wants to help Rachel find her brother, but when he discovers the shocking connection between her visions and his own brother, he suddenly has to do everything in his power to save her from a predator who is somehow still hunting from beyond the grave.

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Maggie Shayne's Bio

Maggie Shayne began her writing career in kindergarten,
when she painstakingly copied The Brementown Musicians onto construction
paper in full Crayola color, complete with illustrations of her own design,
and presented it proudly to her teacher. Of course this was not an exact copy.
She had tweaked the story a bit, improving it greatly, in her five-year-old
opinion.

By third grade her tastes had matured. At story hour, when
it was her turn to choose the book from which the teacher would read, Maggie
picked Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, which she proceeded to recite from
memory as the teacher began reading. Far from being suitably impressed, Maggie
recalls her teacher seemed to pale a bit, and looked at her oddly from then
on.

Her fondness for the macabre stayed with her, as did her
penchant for rewriting her favorite stories. As a teen, while watching her beloved
Universal Pictures Monster Classics over and over, she became more and more
certain someone had to fix the endings.

It was so obvious that Dracula, the Wolfman, and the dusty
Mummy had been cheated! These were not horror flicks, in her teenage opinion.
They were romances.

They portrayed a love that went beyond life itself. But
the endings were all wrong. Anyone could see the monster was supposed to get
the girl!

Well, one marriage and five daughters later, Maggie has
made it her mission in life to see to it that old wrongs are set right.

But her best love is the genre known as paranormal romance.
And Maggie writes these like no other author. No one else writing today manages
to combine the hearts of two such diverse genres as romance and horror, while
still thrilling both segments of the readership with the stunning results.

Shamelessly romantic, breathtakingly emotional, chilling
in their suspense, with edge-of-the-seat tension, her stories capture the classic
allure that makes beauty-and-the-beast tales so belovedthe key, is the
redemption of the monster by the sheer power of love.